University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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,,. -. . I ,V 'if :':,w,Ajj fi, f f 'wwf , r ' ' J . ' -fi V' 5' r 5 GOLD RUN : GOLD HILL IN TI-IE BEGINNING The first white settlers came in 1858, encamping at the mouth of Boulder Canon Sunday evening, October seventeenth. From the solemn spires of sandstone that guarded their canvas home on the north they called the place Red Rock. It was a beautiful spot in which to rest. To the east lay the fertile valley they had just traversed, so agreeable to the eye after the long journey over the thirsty plains. The stream, with its cottonwoods and sparse box-elders, marked with an intermittent silver thread the luxuriant meadowlands 5 herds of antelope, buffalo and elk were grazing peacefully as on the first Sabbath in Eden. The 'tips of the great southern foothills, then without a name, caught the last rays and turned them into the emerald and rich reds that were after- wards known as Green Mountain and Sunset Rock. But the dark shadows of the canons impressed the Easterners with some- thing more than mountain gloom. Their apprehensions were realized when, before their first sleep, Ni Wot, an Arapahoe chief, came into camp and warned them off. ' U This band of men had not loft the Pikeps Peak Trail at St. Vrain with 11 View of enjoying the scenery and then departing, they, too, were after gold. By wheedling they got the better of Ni W ot, and when a more sturdy chief, 13 -.........-,, V. -4.-Wh .--4 - 4 'ff